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nouna banana tree bearing hanging clusters of edible angular greenish starchy fruits; tropics and subtropics
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nounany of numerous plants of the genus Plantago; mostly small roadside or dooryard weeds with elliptic leaves and small spikes of very small flowers; seeds of some used medicinallytype of:
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nounstarchy banana-like fruit; eaten (always cooked) as a staple vegetable throughout the tropicspart of:
Definition that contains plantain
- psyllium plantain of Mediterranean regions whose seeds swell and become gelatinous when moist and are used as a mild laxative
- spanish psyllium plantain of Mediterranean regions whose seeds swell and become gelatinous when moist and are used as a mild laxative
- fleawort plantain of Mediterranean regions whose seeds swell and become gelatinous when moist and are used as a mild laxative
- plantago psyllium plantain of Mediterranean regions whose seeds swell and become gelatinous when moist and are used as a mild laxative